Julia Haake, a trained economist with a PhD fromVersailles University in France, leadsthe ESG Rating Agency business unit of EthiFinance, a European rating, research andadvisory group serving sustainable finance and sustainable development. Over a periodof 15 years, Julia held senior client facing, market strategy and product developmentrelated roles within ESG rating and research institutions-at Moody’s ESG Solutions, ISSESG and oekom research. Previously, Julia has worked in Sustainability, CSR and ESGsince 1993, when she started as a researcher, first at the German Wuppertal Instituteand then at Versailles University in France, where she completed her PhD thesis inEnvironmental Economics. She later joined the French consulting firm O2 France as aconsultant advising corporates on environmental and sustainability strategy andenvironmentally friendly product design. From 2003 to 2008 she contributed tobuilding and rolling out the French postal operator Groupe La Poste’s CSR strategy,before joining the global environmental NGO WWF, where her role was to lead theParis-based team in charge with managing corporate relations, sustainabilitypartnerships and corporate fundraising.Julia has been appointed member of theGerman government's Sustainable Finance Commission in June 2022, and from 2019to 2022, she acted as appointed member of the French market regulator’s (Autorité desMarches Financiers) Sustainable Finance Commission.She is also co-author of the book"L'Entreprise Légère", written with Basile Gueorguievsky, published by Delachaux &Niestlé in 2010.